# Amputations at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
> OSHA SIR `2022021062` · 2/3/2022 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- **Location:** 1459 BESSEMER DR, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79938
- **NAICS:** 326212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a machine to add tread to a commercial tire casing. As the employee removed the spliced tread from the rollers, their left thumb contacted a retracted blade on the machine and they suffered a partial amputation to their left index fingertip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*